“He will wipe away
every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be
mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed
away.” (Revelation 21:4, ESV)”
I’ve been working on several posts the last couple of
days, but tonight as I sit at my desk working on several different projects I can’t
help but think of that coming day when death will be extinguished forever,
never to be seen again. In that day sorrow will never be felt again. The
scriptures say that death no longer has power over us, but in Revelations 20 we
see where death itself is destroyed, “Then
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire...” (Revelation 20:14,
ESV).
“But according to
his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which
righteousness dwells.” (2 Peter 3:13, ESV)
While I understand that these scriptures communicate a heartbreaking
message of judgment and destruction it also communicates a hope that we all
hold to as followers of Christ. That the work of Christ on the cross and in the
resurrection not only went to redeem man, but to redeem creation itself. The
scriptures say that the streams will flow in the desert, and that the lion and
the lamb will lie together.
“For I consider
that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory
that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the
revealing of the sons of God. ” (Romans 8:18-19, ESV)
Do you see what Paul says there? That the pain we feel
and trouble we experience now is not even worth comparing with what we will
experience in the age to come. I know that is not easy to say but we don’t
understand the glory we will live in.
“For behold, I
create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former
things shall not be remembered
or come into mind.”
(Isaiah 65:17, ESV)
